Welcome

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a place to speak freely inside and outside of the consulting room. Psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors report it is less and less possible to question organisational practice, fearful of overt or covert punishment. Academics in our universities fear for their jobs if they speak out. Most importantly, the therapeutic space itself has become subject to various insistences – what is sayable, what is hearable, what must be reported, what technique must look like. Neoliberalism, the rise in the audit culture, and the overregulation of therapy challenges such freedoms. So what do we do?